Tree Stump Spider

When I took the photos for https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/2025095510..... it was around 9:00 p.m. on April 1st. and the web was complete, with the spider sitting at the hub. Later, that evening, I read in https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstrea.... that this spider makes its web at dusk and disassembles it at dawn. It then hides all day. So I decided to visit the spider again on April 2nd., just before dusk, so that I could try to take pictures of the web building sequence. I sat down at 6:15 p.m., in a comfortable spot and waited... and waited. At 7:23 p.m. I thought I saw a movement and swithed on my headlamp (to give me sufficient light to focus my camera) and took the picture shown above. That was the only photo I got. This spider appears to be hyper sensitive and immediately froze when it saw my light. I stayed in position, hoping that the spider would recover and continue building its web, but by 9:00 p.m., the spider had not moved and I ended my observation. So, this attempt was a failure, but I often have several failures, before an eventual success. All I have to do now is to work out a method of taking pictures in the dark, without terrifying the poor spider. If I succeed, I will post a better spotting than this one, on Project Noah.